>the World CTL Police action. cannot weaken Peace Council PRAGUE Appealing to national peace move- Ments throughout the world to pro- test the French government’s de- Cree banning its activities (its headquarters were in Paris), the -ureau of the World Peace Coun- cil, following a meeting in Prague, fas issued a statement declaring: “The activities of the World Peace Council cannot be weakened by the police measures of any gov- ernment. In its appeal for out- lawing of atomic weapons, controls ©ver the reduction of armaments, demilitarization of Germany and Japan, peaceful solution of the Ko-’ rean conflict, and conclusion of a ‘ Peace pact. between the five great Powers, the World Peace Council turns to all nations, all parliaments and all governments. Its world- Wide scope excludes any interfer- fnce in the internal affairs of *rance or any other country.” The statement pointed out that ‘ Peace Council formed N€ Only basis for discussion and aprcement among nations without 4 Stinction, from east to west, Mong adherents of different eco. Romie and social systems = MAY. DAY GREETINGS from LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY CLUBS “ i The Pacific Tribune is doing a Magnificent job in accurately reporting the activities of the World Struggle for peace.” —Dr. Christopher Woodard PORT ALBERNI CLUB EAST END CLUB WEST END CLUB °LGIN CLUB VICTORY SQUARE CLUB KITSILANO CLUE COMMERCIAL DRIVE CLUB NOBERLEY CLUB 1, QUAY-RENFREW CLUB 1) NOOtVER HEIGHTS CLUB ERNON cLUB ‘ MARITIME CLUB RANDVIEW CLUB oh BURNABY CLUB INGS BAST. NANAIMO AREA om ey WM: 1 My 2Yy ood PLL NTT VANCOUVER METAL & CHEMICAL ‘ WORKERS UNION LOCAL NO. 289 Vancouver, B.C. Extends MAY DAY_ GREETINGS a CRE RERNKNR PEKING Popular support for the Philip- pine people’s armed/ forces (for- merly the Hukbalahaps, a guer- rilla organization formed to re- sist the Japanese occupation, which grew to 20,000 members and established its own demo- cratic regime in central Luzon) has become ‘so strong that the corrupt Quirino . gOvernment is forced to station troops on the outskirts of Manila. (See picture above.) In,an effort to smash popular resistance to its policies, the Quirino government has secretly arested Amado V. E. Hernandez, Philippines regime fears growing people’s forces president of the Congress of La- bor Organizations (CLO), and Scores of other progressive lead- ers and is holding them without charge in a concentration camp. Since their arrest an estimated 5,000 people have been arrested throughout the Philippines. A group of prominent. Britons, including D. N. Pritt, KC, John Platt Mills and Julius Jacobs, secretary of London Trades Coun- cil, protesting the arrests, is call- ing for world trade union pdotests, pointing out that unless inter- national action is taken the lives of Hernandez and others may be endangered. Italy must have peace gov't, says Palmiro Togliatti Creation of a ‘peace’ government,” ROME capable of withdraw- ing Italy from pledges which inevitably’ would involve the country in any third world war, was proposed by Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist party, at the party’s seventh national congress recently concluded here. In a dramatic speech, Togliatti warned the present rulers of Italy “to have no illusions that the Ital- ian people will follow them in a war serving imperialism against the Soviet Union and the People’s De- mocracies.” MAY DAY . ae from Polish Democratic Association GREETINGS LOCAL INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY WORKERS’ UNION . Extends , : \ MAY DAY GREETINGS a NO. 42 Amid thunderous applause, the Italian (Communist leader declared, “Italian people will not fight such a war.” He invited the present Italian government to “recall what hap- pened to fascism when it dragged people into war against their will. “We are making no threats,” he said, “but it is well to remind them that we are not mere pacif- ists who invoke peace. We are a force that fights actively for the defense of peace.” People’s plebiscite on remilitarization urged BERLIN A central committee for a peo- ple’s plebiscite on remilitarization has been established in West Ger- many and is winning support from large sections of the péople to whom it has issued “An Appeal to all Germans” to set up sub-commit- tees in factories, schools and offiées to organize the plebiscite. 7 USSR aids Poland in | building new plants, A new cement plant which will be one of the largest and most modern in Europe is under con- struction at Wierzbica. It will utilize the rich, hitherto untouched deposits of limestone and marl in this region. It is one of scores of industrial plants for which the So- viet [Union has supplied Poland ) with complete plans and equipment, SURGICAL ‘SEWING MACHINE’ By RALPH PARKER MOSCOW A young Soviet technologist has designed a surgical intru- ment for the fast sewing of veins and blood vessels, which, it is claimed here, opens a new era in surgery. The instrument was first suc- cessfully used on a human be- ing less than a year ago. It is now in mass production and is being used in many operating theatres in the Soviet Union. The inventor of the. surgical “sewing machine,” Vasili Gudov, ence worked as a fitter in a machine tool factory and later obtained a diploma at the Avia- tion Institute. Soviet Army medical chief Gen- eral Smirnov, Vasili obtained an experimental laboratory. In 1949, surgeons at Moscow’s Skil- fasovsky Institute started to use the instrument on dogs. They found they were able to reunite When he outlined the idea @& - New era opened by Soviet invention a dissected caratoid artery so rapidly that the animal lived. Later they joined the inner chest arteries and stomach of a patient with a sewn in artificial tube. Since then the instrument has been successfully used on all blood vessels, including the femoral artery. Gudov and a group of men -and women designers and sur- geqns have been awarded a Stal- in prize. The use of this small, easily- handled instrument has already Saved many lives during ampu- tations and is expected to open the way to reuniting with the body of limbs torn off in acci- dents and to the rapid substi- tution ‘of orgdns in injured bodies. Gudov turned to surgical in- strument designing when he learned that over half the deaths in the last war. resulted from injury. e RANGOON French colonial authorities are making. extravagant claims of successes won by commando units (see pictures above) in the “dirty war’ in Viet Nam. The claims however, conceal “the re cent victories, not yet admitted by the French, scored by the Viet- namese People’s Army. This month the Vietnamese People’s Army liberated Uongbi, second largest town in the coast- ry Viethamese Riccake port, puncture French boasts al- mining area of North Viet Nam, despite the boast of the new French commander-in-chief, General de Lattre de Tassigny® that he would not “surrender an inch” of territory. French garrison troops fled the town, abandoning arms, muni- tions, vehicles and stores. Capture of Uongbi, only .12 miles north of Haphong, chief port of North Viet Nam, followed liberation of other towns in the Same area. \ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 27, 1951 — Page 3 i ghee or ie